Daily Archives: June 27, 2003
Thank you, Officer
Researchers from Stanford and the University of Toronto have found that receiving a traffic ticket reduces a driver’s risk of dying in a crash by 35 percent. From the June 28th edition of “Lancet”
Massachusetts Institute of Turkeys
Mr. Gobbles, a wild turkey, appeared mysteriously in Kendall Square, Cambridge, over three months ago. Even stranger, the bird seems to be under the protection of federal officials from the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center…… Mr. Gobbles even has a … Continue reading
A Man Named “Dog.”..
width=”185″ height=”119″ alt=> Duane "Dog" Chapman, a 50-year-old, Hawaii-based bounty hunter, his brother Timothy and his son Leland were arrested along with Shells and Krutonog on June 18, about two hours after the group captured convicted rapist Andrew Luster near … Continue reading
One-size-fits-all Heart Medication
A once-a-day pill for everyone over 55 could undo some of the ill-effects of our sedentary, high-cholesterol, western lifestyle and slash the rate of strokes and heart attacks by more than 80%, doctors said yesterday.
Armed in the Classroom
Airline pilots aren’t the only ones clamoring to carry guns to work. Front-line teachers, increasingly in the line of fire, are arming themselves, where else but in that cauldron of urban violence, “Salt Lake City”.
Fishing, Fenway and all that Jazz
Yesterday I took a break from Blogging to remind myself that there is a "Real World" out there somewhere. Bobbing on the Atlantic off Nahant at dawn after the delicious, elusive "stripers", baking in the bleachers of Fenway watching Pedro … Continue reading